</ul>I agree with [[Lu Kz|LuKz]], I suggest to list the AR (DJ-Mixed, Remixed track, Production...) under the album list. The same way as on [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kruder+%26+Dorfmeister discogs] --[[User:Schika|Schika]]

</ul>I agree with [[Lu Kz|LuKz]], I suggest to list the AR (DJ-Mixed, Remixed track, Production...) under the album list. The same way as on [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kruder+%26+Dorfmeister discogs] --[[User:Schika|Schika]]

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<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">Well, your proposition contradicts what [[Lu Kz|LuKz]] said above. I concur with [[User:Fuchs|Fuchs]], that we are gradually shifting our focus to be more accurate, and therefore need to write what's on the cover. Actually, we used Kruder & Dorfmeister as an actual example why we need album artists for albums, which can have different track artists. Of course, they did much more than compile the albums - unlike compilation mix artists who do nothing more than selecting and x-fading the tracks. --[[G0llum]]

Allow albums with various artists on the tracks but which are attributed to one artist to be moved to this artist.

Change the StyleGuideline like this: "If two or more primary artists perform on a track, create a collaboration artist for them and attach the track to it." Note, that the use of "feat." will still be valid for guest performing artists.

Contents

Code changes

The first part requires code changes such that:

The album listing will no longer list albums which have a track of the current artist on them and AlbumArtist == VariousArtists but list albums which have a track of the current artist on them and AlbumArtist != the current artist.

The album appears in the discography of Howard Shore (in one of the main sections).

The album appears in one of the VA sections of Enya.

When looking at the album you see Howard Shore above it and the correct artist listed for every track.

The double album The K&D Sessions is added again and again to the artist Kruder & Dorfmeister because they remixed it and so it is attributed to them. You could move it to this artist and it would appear under their albums - but the remixed tracks still show the original artists.

Editing

As you can see in some cases you'd need several atomic edits until you are where you want to be with an album (convert to VA, change track artist, move to SA). Therefore it's recommended to add notes with exhaustive explanations to the edits and links to each other. Also as some of the changes do not appear under subscribable artists you might want to tell people to vote on those changes if you are not an AutoModerator so that they won't fail and you can go on with the work on it.

Discussion

How does a compilation with a track by Pearl Jam & Cypress Hill (http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=306208) be handled? This collaboration artist only appears twice, both times on a 'real' Various Artists release. At the moment and after this relief has been implemented those 2 releases won't show up under either Pearl Jam or Cypress Hill. --Zout

So in effect the FeaturingArtistStyle I made "official" and lasted for a day will be applied, with the extension of the ReleaseArtist? This looks great! When will this go live on the test server, you think? --Zout

When moving a VA release to a 'main' artist (we need good terminology for this), there is the option "Move Tracks to Album Artist", which actually is the same as "Convert to single artist". I suggest removing this option, as it is counter-intuitive. Instead of the check box, there can be a text saying something like "If you want all tracks to be by the same artist, you need to Convert to single artist instead".

There seem to be two listings for 'Compilation' after moving a VA release to an artist (e.g. Queen). At least, yesterday. Has this been fixed in the mean time? Great!

If I understand correctly, the 'main' artist on a release is set for releases that are e.g. Greatest Hits by a single artist, but that have one or more tracks on it that are collaborations or maybe by a member of the group. Also, for DJ-Mixes, the DJ Mixer should be the 'main artist'. Should be, at the same time, forbid the use of '(Mixed by ...)' in ReleaseTitles? This can now be captured by adding a DJ-Mix AR and changing the 'main' artist. Any more cases? -Zout

I'd say DJ-mixes should be regular VA albums, not under DJ as a main artist. --LuKz

The plan was, to use the artist on the cover, meaning if a DJ releases a DJ-Mix CD under his name, then his name is used as main artist for the release. On the other hand, if the CD is just a VA-DJ-Mix and the Mix-DJ is only mentioned in the liner notes, then of course he is not the main artist. This should reduce the number of "gray-zone-releases" that you can't explicitly select an artist or VA as main artist for. (Can someone give examples of typical DJ-Mix albums?--Fuchs

I agree with LuKz, I suggest to list the AR (DJ-Mixed, Remixed track, Production...) under the album list. The same way as on discogs --Schika

Well, your proposition contradicts what LuKz said above. I concur with Fuchs, that we are gradually shifting our focus to be more accurate, and therefore need to write what's on the cover. Actually, we used Kruder & Dorfmeister as an actual example why we need album artists for albums, which can have different track artists. Of course, they did much more than compile the albums - unlike compilation mix artists who do nothing more than selecting and x-fading the tracks. --G0llum